Media Roundtable Kudos

FRIDAY AT 10:00AM

Every week, Your Call brings together journalists from the mainstream, alternative and international media to analyze the job the news media did covering important stories. The conversation starts on a positive note, with each guest pointing to a piece of great journalism they want to highlight.

Rose Aguilar and her guests discuss journalism that stood out this week.

Guests:

A.C. Thompson, award winning investigative reporter with ProPublica, covering the rise in hate crimes in the US for the Documenting Hate project

Sarah Posner, reporter with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, and an expert on the intersection of religion and politics

Rose Aguilar and her guests discuss journalism that stood out this week.

This week's guests:

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back

Trudy Lieberman, long-time contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review where she blogs for CJR.org about media coverage of healthcare and retirement issues, and "Thinking About Health" bi-monthly columnist for the Rural Health News Service

Rose Aguilar and her guests Paul Mooney award winning freelance journalist and Will Bunch senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and it's author of its popular blog Attytood to talk about examples of great journalism from the week.

Rose Aguilar and her guests Antonia Juhasz, award-winning investigative journalist on oil and energy expert, and Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties, point to examples of great journalism this week.